The Hope
Frani
climbs out
of the shower,
wrapped in a pink
bath towel, pats herself
dry, ties back her hair,
wipes the mist from the
mirror, and stares at the
naked image. Her face has
good color. smooth.Youthful.
Her body is trim, firm, and
shapely. She raises her right
arm and with her left hand
performs the periodic ritual.
Her fingers probe her breast
and underarm, gently squeezing,
searching for lumps, bulges,
tenderness or pain. She finds
nothing and repeats the process
on her left side. She'll be
forty in a few months and
have a mammogram, another
procedure she'll have to
endure every year, because
she's at risk. Her mother
lost her right breast
over twenty years ago,
she's alive, but, Gram'ma
died from the cancer, long
before Frani had been
born. And what if I have it,
lumpectomy, mastectomy,
or should I take the test
to find out if I have the gene,
and then what if I do? Have both
removed and reconstructed,
still losing a piece of myself?'
"Mommy, why are you crying?"
Frani's five year-old asks, from
the threshold of the doorway.
"It's nothing, honey, I have
something in my eye." She
rubs her eyes and wonders,
'My daughter will have to face
this, but I know they will soon
find a cure?'
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